Undertaker&#39;s clamp.



H. C. EASTLAKE. UNDBRTAKERS CLAMP. APPLICATION FILED JULY s, 1 14.

Patented Mar. 2, 1915.

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HERBERT c. EASTLAKE, or MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 2, 1915.

Application filed July 6, 1914. Serial No. 849,358.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERBERT G. EAST- LAKE, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inUndertakers Clamps; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention consists in what is herein particularly set forth with reference to the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the claims of this specification, its object being to provide simple, economical, readily adjustable and eflicient clamps especially designed for the use of undertakers, each clamp serving as a means for holding the lower jaw of a corpse in closed position while said corpse is being prepared, for funeral rites.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents a side elevation of a clamp in accordance with my invention as applied to the head of a corpse shown by dotted lines; Fig. 2, a partly sectional plan view of the clamp inverted, the view being indicated by line 22 in Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a partly sectional view of a cranium bow element of the clamp, the view being indicated by line 3-3 in Fig. l, and Fig. 1, a plan view of a chin-rest element of said clamp.

Referring by numerals to the drawings, 5 indicates a block provided with longitudinal bores in which suitably bent arms 6 of stiff wire are rigidly secured to extend from the head-end of said block, said arms being also rigid in shanks 7 of radially serrated coupling-disks 8 matching similar disks 9 having shanks 10 rigid on the ends of a stiff wire bow 11 that is fashioned to fit upon the cranium of a corpse, and the paired coupling-disks 8, 9, are held in interlocking engagement by thumb-screws 12 in connection therewith, said screws being tightened after a pivotal adjustment of said bow. The fashioning of the bow is such that its couplings with the arms 6 are clear of the forehead of the corpse to which the clamp is applied. The block 5 is provided with a longitudinal bore 5 intermediate of the bores in which the arms 6 are rigid. Fittmg the bore 5, to be longitudinally adjustable in said block and extend from the footend of the same is a rod 13 rigid at its outer end in the shank 14L of a coupling-disk 15 similar to those aforesaid. The disk 15 has interlocking engagement with a similar disk 16, and a shank 17 of the last named disk is rigid on a suitably bent hanger 18 to which a lug 19 of a chin-rest 20 is rigidly secured. The rod 13 is held in adjusted position by a set-screw 21 that turns in the block 5, and the coupling-disks 15,16, are held in interlocking engagement by a thumb screw 22 in connection therewith, this thumbscrew being tightened after a pivotal adj ustment of the chin-rest.

From the foregoing description and the graphic illustration by Fig. 1 of the drawing, it is apparent that the clamp may be readily adjusted on the head of a corpse to hold the lower jaw of said corpse in closed position, and the utility'of said clamp will appeal to undertakers in general.

I claim:

1. A clamp comprising a block, suitably bent rigid arms extending from the headend of the block, a suitably bent stifi bow having its ends in pivotally adjustable connection with said arms, a rod adjustable longitudinally of the block and extending from the foot-end of the same, means for holding the rod in adjusted position, a hanger in pivotally adjustable connection with the outer end of said rod, and a chinrest attached to the hanger.

2. A clamp comprising a block having suitably bent rigid arms extending from the head-end thereof, radially serrated couplingdisks having shanks thereof fast on the head-arms, a suitably bent stiff bow, other radially serrated coupling-disks matching those aforesaid and fast to the ends of the bow, thumb-screws connecting the coupling disks in pairs, a rod adjustable longitudinally of the block and extending from the foot-end of the same, means for holding the rod in adjusted position, a radially serrated coupling-disk having a shank fast on the outer end of said rod, a hanger provided at one end with a radially serrated couplingthe county of Milwaukee and State of Wisdisk matching the one attached to the aforeconsin in the presence of two Witnesses. said rod, a thumb-screw connecting the disks I last specified, and a chin-rest attached to the HERBERT EASTLAKE' 5 hanger. Witnesses:

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I N. E. OLIPHANT, have hereunto set my hand at Milwaukee'in M. E. DOWNEY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0. 

